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To enjoy the glow of good health, you must exercise.
You were made perfectly to be loved — and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
All the money in the world can't buy you back good health.
Jesus isn't lettin' you off the hook. The Scriptures don't let you off the hook so easily... When people say, you know, 'Good teacher', 'Prophet', 'Really nice guy' ... this is not how Jesus thought of Himself.
Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
Growth is painful. Change is painful. But, nothing is as painful as staying stuck where you do not belong.
Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.
You know what they call the fellow who finishes last in his medical school graduating class? They call him 'Doctor'.
Your self-esteem won't come from body parts. You need to step away from the mirror every once in a while, and look for another reflection, like the one in the eyes of the people who love you and admire you.
I love performing, and I love being in front of people. I love the pressure you get and the pleasure performing brings.
You have to have the right mind-set.
If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
Whatever you do, don't take shortcuts. It's great advice to take and live by.
If you don't have an emotional connection to why you are trying to accomplish your goals, the odds are you won't reach them or will quit trying.
People are going to come into your life that need you, and being there for them makes the day worth living. People are going to come into your life that you need, and that's the really crazy thing.
As a surgeon you have to have a controlled arrogance. If it's uncontrolled, you kill people, but you have to be pretty arrogant to saw through a person's chest, take out their heart and believe you can fix it. Then, when you succeed and the patient survives, you pray, because it's only by the grace of God that you get there.
Once you begin being naughty, it is easier to go and on and on, and sooner or later something dreadful happens.
One part of wisdom is knowing what you don't need anymore and letting it go.
To live in the light of a new day and an unimaginable and unpredictable future, you must become fully present to a deeper truth — not a truth from your head, but a truth from your heart; not a truth from your ego, but a truth from the highest source.
You have to be confident in who you are and what you're doing. Of course, you try to evolve. I would never tell you, 'Today is the best I will ever be'. I'm always trying to be a better chef, a better dad, a better person.